London 2600 meetingstag:spyblog.org.uk,2008-04-22:/ssl/meetings//122019-05-03T18:56:55Zhttp://London2600.org.uk
First Friday of each month,
6.30 to 7.30pm, by front entrance
of the Trocadero shopping centre, Piccadilly, London, UK
Movable Type 5.2.11The next official London 2600 meeting is on Friday 3rd May 2019tag:s.p10.hostingprod.com,2007:/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/meetings//12.23812019-05-03T17:29:59Z2019-05-03T18:56:55ZThe next official London 2600 meeting will be on Friday 3rd May 2019 from 18:30 to 19:30. Coventry Street front entrance of the former Trocadero Opposite TGI Friday Piccadilly London W1D 7DH Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/4FxdpbA9fGK2 Subscribe to the London 2600...London 2600http://London2600.org.uk
The next official London 2600 meeting will be on Friday 3rd May 2019 from 18:30 to 19:30.

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The Glass Room London - Wed 25th Oct to Sun 12th Nov 2017tag:p10.secure.hostingprod.com,2017:/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/meetings//12.46572017-10-25T15:57:14Z2017-10-20T16:35:11Z The Glass Room is a pop-up tech store with a twist. At first glance, it offers the latest in shiny digital consumer products, such as the newest tablet, fitness tracker or facial recognition software. But as you go inside,...wtwu

The Glass Room is a pop-up tech store with a twist. At first glance, it offers the latest in shiny digital consumer
products, such as the newest tablet, fitness tracker or facial recognition software. But as you go inside, you'll
find there is nothing for sale.

Instead, as you look closer at the 'products' on display, you'll see that they are playfully and provocatively
selected to turn the technologies we all use on their head. The artworks, design pieces, and 'Ingenius' staff
welcome you to take a look behind the screens into the hidden world of what happens to your data. Dig deeper
into how much we reveal about ourselves by trying out free, alternative apps, taking away the 8-day Data Detox Kit,
or interacting with our thematic programme of workshops and events.

The Glass Room is an intervention that prompts reflection, experimentation and play. A place that invites you to discuss how data and technology are changing the personal, professional and social fabric of all our lives and a way of making informed choices in the future.The Glass Room will be open from Wednesday 25th October to Sunday 12th November, from 12:00pm - 08:00pm every day.

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : Making Choices in your Digital Life
Whatsapp, Gmail, Google Search - we use these apps and tools because everyone else does, and because... what else is there? This workshop will enable ...

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : De-Googlise Your Life
"One account. All of Google," is Google's tagline. But what does this mean for those of us who use Google search, Google Docs, Gmail, and ...

Thursday, 26 October, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : WTF (What the Facebook)?
What aspects of your life are you sharing with Facebook? How much does this company know about you through your daily use of products like ...

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : Investigating Metadata
We generate metadata all the time - when we send emails, post online, take a picture or even just walk around with our mobile phones ...

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : Investigating Metadata
We generate metadata all the time - when we send emails, post online, take a picture or even just walk around with our mobile phones ...

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Artist Talk : Manuel Beltrán: We, the Data Workers.
Artist and activist Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), will speak about the future of labour, particularly about our new position ...

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Artist Talk : !Mediengruppe Bitnik: Bots and Angels
Artists !Mediengruppe Bitnik talk about their recent works on bots and the online ecosystems that has formed around them. They will retrace their recent explorations ...

Saturday, 28 October, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : Boost your Browsing
Searching, surfing and shopping, much of it happens in your browser. Curious how your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and so on) leaves you open to ...

8:00 pm
Screening : UK Premiere: PRE-CRIME (2017)
What if the murder of tomorrow could be prevented today? Welcome to the real Minority Report. Predicting future crimes sounds like something from a sci-fi ...

Sunday, 29 October, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : How the Web Works
We are always connecting to the internet via our mobile phones, tablets and computers, but do we actually know how the internet works? Learn how ...

Monday, 30 October, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : Making Choices in your Digital Life
Whatsapp, Gmail, Google Search - we use these apps and tools because everyone else does, and because... what else is there? This workshop will enable ...

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : De-Googlise Your Life
"One account. All of Google," is Google's tagline. But what does this mean for those of us who use Google search, Google Docs, Gmail, and ...

Tuesday, 31 October, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : Boost your Browsing
Searching, surfing and shopping, much of it happens in your browser. Curious how your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and so on) leaves you open to ...

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : WTF (What the Facebook)?
What aspects of your life are you sharing with Facebook? How much does this company know about you through your daily use of products like ...

Wednesday, 1 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : Mastering Your Mobile
Your phone is talking to you, and it is constantly generating and transmitting data to others. This workshop will open the box on your mobile ...

TIME SESSION
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : Investigating Metadata
We generate metadata all the time - when we send emails, post online, take a picture or even just walk around with our mobile phones ...

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Speaker : Privacy International - Scarlet Kim and Harmit Kambo
Governments can't enter and search our homes without good reason, so why should they be allowed to break and enter into our electronic devices if ...

Friday, 3 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : Making Choices in your Digital Life
Whatsapp, Gmail, Google Search - we use these apps and tools because everyone else does, and because... what else is there? This workshop will enable ...

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : Mastering Your Mobile
Your phone is talking to you, and it is constantly generating and transmitting data to others. This workshop will open the box on your mobile ...

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Speaker : Crofton Black: War Taxonomy - An Encyclopaedia of Conditions for Lethal Force
War Taxonomy looks at the record of transactions between the US Defense Department and the private sector. This data - over 15 million items over ...

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Speaker : Eliot Higgins: The End of Secrets - Conflict in the Engagement Age
Eliot Higgins - the award-winning citizen journalist who founded Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog - examines how the spread of social media and open-source ...

Saturday, 4 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : How the Web Works
We are always connecting to the internet via our mobile phones, tablets and computers, but do we actually know how the internet works? Learn how ...

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Workshop : Danja Vasiliev - The Critical Engineering Working Group
'The Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the ...

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : WTF (What the Facebook)?
What aspects of your life are you sharing with Facebook? How much does this company know about you through your daily use of products like ...

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Workshop : Data Justice Lab: Citizen Scores - Governing People through their Data
In education and health, migration and criminal justice, people are assigned data scores that affect their access to services and their treatment by courts, the ...

Monday, 6 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : Boost your Browsing
Searching, surfing and shopping, much of it happens in your browser. Curious how your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and so on) leaves you open to ...

Tuesday, 7 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : How the Web Works
We are always connecting to the internet via our mobile phones, tablets and computers, but do we actually know how the internet works? Learn how ...

Wednesday, 8 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : Boost your Browsing
Searching, surfing and shopping, much of it happens in your browser. Curious how your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and so on) leaves you open to ...

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Speaker : Carl Miller: Digital Power
This talk will be about Carl Miller's attempts to track down and expose one of the most important things that shapes, guides and limits each ...

Thursday, 9 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : De-Googlise Your Life
"One account. All of Google," is Google's tagline. But what does this mean for those of us who use Google search, Google Docs, Gmail, and ...

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Workshop : Mastering Your Mobile
Your phone is talking to you, and it is constantly generating and transmitting data to others. This workshop will open the box on your mobile ...

Friday, 10 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : Investigating Metadata
We generate metadata all the time - when we send emails, post online, take a picture or even just walk around with our mobile phones ...

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Artist Talk : Wesley Goatley: Critical Data Aesthetics
In this talk, Wesley will discuss his work The Listener and explore how critical art and design practice can engage with the politics of data, ...

Saturday, 11 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : Mastering Your Mobile
Your phone is talking to you, and it is constantly generating and transmitting data to others. This workshop will open the box on your mobile ...

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Workshop : Algorithmic Disobedience with Surya Mattu
What does disobedience look like in systems of algorithmic decision-making? In this workshop, artist and engineer Surya Mattu will walk through some tactics and activities ...

Sunday, 12 November, 2017

TIME SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshop : De-Googlise Your Life
"One account. All of Google," is Google's tagline. But what does this mean for those of us who use Google search, Google Docs, Gmail, and ...

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OpenTech 2017 - Saturday 13th May 2017 - ULU , Malet Sttag:p10.secure.hostingprod.com,2017:/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/meetings//12.46532017-05-13T09:00:00Z2017-05-05T18:47:22Z OpenTech 2017 http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/ When: Saturday 13th May 2017. Where: Malet St Cost: £5 on the door. Currently: Pre-register your place Draft Schedule Want to talk? And tell your friends OpenTech 2017 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on...wtwu
OpenTech 2017
http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/
When: Saturday 13th May 2017.
Where: Malet St
Cost: £5 on the door.
Currently:
Pre-register your place
Draft Schedule
Want to talk?
And tell your friends
OpenTech 2017 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, experience and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends.
We've still got a call for talks open. If there's something you'd like to hear about at OpenTech, we'd love to hear what you'd like to hear about, and we'll see what we can do.
Register now
With a month until OpenTech 2017, we're really excited by this year's schedule.
As you'll see it's a fantastic, diverse line up of talks by a whole range of people working
on issues and projects that really matter, after a year of democracy doing things that it wasn't
necessarily expected to do. Go take a look at: http://www.opentech.org.uk/2017/schedule.
Highlights include:
We survived 2016, what about 2017?
Standards for Private Browsing
This is for .everyone
post-FUBAR: what's next?
Privacy: 23 million children
DIY ISP
MicroPython, micro:bit and a Million Children
Design thinking - build it faster
What can deep learning reveal about beautiful places?
Mapping Land Ownership
Periods: a provocation
Open Organs - Post-biological Organ Trade
The future: Hope, Scale, or Change?
All this and much, much more.
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Opentech 2015, Sat 13 June 2015, University of London Students Union, Malet Streettag:p10.secure.hostingprod.com,2015:/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/meetings//12.46322015-06-13T09:10:10Z2015-06-05T06:24:48Z OpenTech 2015 When: Saturday 13th June 2015. Doors open 10:00am Where: ULU "Student Central" (ULU), Malet St, London Cost: £5 on the door. Currently: Schedule Location OpenTech will be 10 years old in 2015. We'll be back on June...wtwu

We'll be back on June 13th 2015, for the usual mix of technology, experience and everything else. Book your place now, while we firm up the schedule.

We've still got a call for talks open. If there's something you'd like to hear about at OpenTech next year, we'd love to hear what you'd like to hear about, and we'll see what we can do.

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Electromagnetic Field Camp - Bletchley, 29th - 31st Augusttag:p10.secure.hostingprod.com,2014:/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/meetings//12.46072014-08-29T09:00:01Z2014-07-11T08:54:40ZSome of us are going to the: Electromagnetic Field Camp - Bletchley, 29th - 31st August "Imagine a camping festival with a power grid and high-speed internet access; a temporary village of geeks, crafters, and technology enthusiasts that's lit up...London 2600http://London2600.org.uk
Some of us are going to the:

"Imagine a camping festival with a power grid and high-speed internet access; a temporary village of geeks, crafters, and technology enthusiasts that's lit up by night, and buzzing with activity during the day. Over a thousand curious people will descend on our friendly open space to learn, share, and talk about what they love.

Over a long weekend, you can expect to see a huge variety of talks across three stages, a slew of workshops, as well as music, games, and installations dotted around the site.

At previous events we've heard talks about everything from genetic modification to electronics, blacksmithing to high-energy physics, reverse engineering to lock picking, computer security to crocheting, and quadcopters to brewing.

We're inviting attendees to set up their own villages -- camps within the camp -- where like-minded people can camp together and put on their own activities. Our hard-working team of volunteers will supply you with power and internet to your tent.

Our internet connection -- last time it was 380 megabits, this time we're aiming for much more -- will be beamed in from a datacenter nearby, and distributed to your tent by (hopefully) the most reliable conference WiFi network you'll ever use, housed in a series of specially repurposed high-tech portaloos.

You'll also be able to take advantage of our well-stocked bar selling great beer, cider, and soft drinks at distinctly non-festival prices. Sadly we can't get hold of the motorway bridge that housed the bar at our last site.

When you arrive, you'll be issued with an attendee badge unlike any you've seen before. Our badge is a full-blown Arduino-powered computer with an LCD screen and wireless connectivity. During EMF, you'll be able to view the schedule of talks on your badge. After the event, instead of sitting in a drawer, it's fully reprogrammable to do whatever you want. If you don't know how, you can learn at the event!

What makes Electromagnetic Field unique is that everything is created by attendees like you. The entire event -- stewarding, water, electricity, internet, stages, toilets, and the bar -- is organised by a dedicated team of volunteers, and everyone who turns up does their part to make the event an amazing place to be for a weekend. We're a non-profit organisation, so every penny you spend on your ticket goes towards making the event happen.

Expect to run into spork-making workshops, bottle rocket launches, high altitude balloon releases, ad-hoc music installations and so much more.

We hope we've given you a taste of what EMF is all about, but you have to be there to experience it all. Tickets are on sale now -- if you miss out on it this year, our next festival won't be until 2016.

If you want to get involved, you can propose a talk, workshop, or installation, or join our team of volunteers to help build an amazing festival."

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Christmas Party: Saturday 14th December 2013, London Stone, opp Cannon Street stationtag:p10.secure.hostingprod.com,2013:/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/meetings//12.45832013-12-14T21:00:00Z2013-12-15T16:30:27ZThe annual London 2600 Christmas Party: is at the same venue as last year When: Saturday 14th December 7pm - late (pub shuts 3am) Where: London Stone pub, 109 Cannon Street London EC4N 5AD just opposite Cannon Street station http://www.eerie-pubs.co.uk/london-stone/Find-Us...London 2600http://London2600.org.uk
The annual London 2600 Christmas Party: is at the same venue as last year

This will be a free event, but you will need to register your intention to attend, so that we can keep within the capacity limits of the venue.

A CryptoParty is *not* meant to be an event simply for technical experts, it aims to educate journalists, campaigners, political activists and the public in general about the basics of securing the privacy of their internet and mobile phone communications. Learn how to protect your confidential data, the identities of your contacts and whistleblower sources, your trade secrets and intellectual property, your financial transactions or just the seemingly mundane day to day aspects of your personal life.

Many of the people who need to use such tools and techniques the most, do not do so, because of their perceived difficulty and the tendency of technical experts to get side tracked into jargon and theoretical details, which are not relevant to most beginners.

That said, nobody is expert in all the tools and techniques that are available and which may be necessary, depending on the motivation and resources of the adversaries you face.

Apart from the obvious unselfish reasons for helping our friends in the USA at their time of need, it is not inconcievable that we may need their help and some of this technology, if / when there is a flooding disaster in London, which is not handled by the Thames Barrier.

This will be a free event, but you will need to register your intention to attend, so that we can keep within the capacity limits of the venue.

A CryptoParty is *not* meant to be an event simply for technical experts, it aims to educate journalists, campaigners, political activists and the public in general about the basics of securing the privacy of their internet and mobile phone communications. Learn how to protect your confidential data, the identities of your contacts and whistleblower sources, your trade secrets and intellectual property, your financial transactions or just the seemingly mundane day to day aspects of your personal life.

Many of the people who need to use such tools and techniques the most, do not do so, because of their perceived difficulty and the tendency of technical experts to get side tracked into jargon and theoretical details, which are not relevant to most beginners.

That said, nobody is expert in all the tools and techniques that are available and which may be necessary, depending on the motivation and resources of the adversaries you face.

A CryptoParty is *not* meant to be an event simply for technical experts, it aims to educate journalists, campaigners, political activists and the public in general about the basics of securing the privacy of their internet and mobile phone communications. Learn how to protect your confidential data, the identities of your contacts and whistleblower sources, your trade secrets and intellectual property, your financial transactions or just the seemingly mundane day to day aspects of your personal life.

Many of the people who need to use such tools and techniques the most, do not do so, because of their perceived difficulty and the tendency of technical experts to get side tracked into jargon and theoretical details, which are not relevant to most beginners.

That said, nobody is expert in all the tools and techniques that are available and which may be necessary, depending on the motivation and resources of the adversaries you face.

It's official: Electromagnetic Field 2012 will be held at Pineham Park, Milton Keynes from Fri 31st August to Sun 2nd September!

11:00 PM - 19 Mar 12

Plans for a mainland European style e.g. Chaos Computer Club or Hacking At Random, "hacker camp", at an open air venue this summer, are starting to come together here in the United Kingdom.

The venue is not yet arranged, as the organisers are trying to assess the number of people willing and able to attend and how much they are willing to pay for their phun.

The target date is provisionally the August Bank Holiday (Monday 27th August 2012) weekend, provided that a suitable venue can be found.

Hopefully this Electromagnetic Field Camp will be a Temporary Autonomous Zone of relief from the propaganda and repression of dissent, which the London 2012 Olympic Games have already started to inflict on us.

Not for Profit, Company Limited by Guarantee

Electromagnetic Field Ltd. is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales with company number 07788466.

Registered office: 2 Ockendon Mews, London N1 3JL

The establishment of such a not for profit company, without individual financial liability, should hopefully allow for a larger event to be organised than previous small scale events in the UK like Access All Areas or DNScon or BrumCon etc.